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Station West (1948)

Station West (1948)

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Station West (1948) Directed by Sidney Lanfield with a screenplay by Frank Fenton and Winston Miller this noir-like Western stars Dick Powell and Jane Greer and features a cast which includes Agnes Moorehead Tom Powers Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams Raymond Burr and Burl Ives (uncredited) among others. If you like Powell’s wisecracking film noir persona you’ll love the twist on the setting; if you don’t and/or you’re a fan [...]
MARK OF ZORRO THE (1940)

Mark of Zorro The (1940)

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Mark of Zorro The (1940) Great film to watch with your kids or grandkids. Features Tyrone Power in the title role the son of the former "mayor" of a small town who goes away to military school. When he returns as its best student he finds that another ruthless man has assumed his father’s position backed by the sword of Basil Rathbone’s character who is having an affair with the man’s wife (Gale Sondergaard). In part [...]
WEEK-END AT THE WALDORF (1945)

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)

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Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) This lavish overlong version of Vicki Baum’s play which had previously won the Academy Award for Best Picture as Grand Hotel (1932) is at its best when Ginger Rogers and Walter Pidgeon (in the Greta Garbo-John Barrymore roles) are on the screen. Rogers plays Irene Malvern a lonely career actress who’s in New York for a childhood friend’s wedding and the premiere of her latest movie and Pidgeon plays [...]
PATSY THE (1928) – FULL REVIEW!

Patsy The (1928) – full review!

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Patsy The (1928) – full review! Directed by the great King Vidor this Marion Davies silent comedy also stars Marie Dressler in the comeback role credited with keeping the great dame from taking her own life and rejuvenating her career. Reportedly Vidor hadn’t considered “drama queen” Davies appropriate for comedic roles until he got better acquainted with her and her sense of humor socially at William Randolph [...]
All-American Co-Ed (1941)

All-American Co-Ed (1941)

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All-American Co-Ed (1941) This B Musical Comedy was produced and directed by three time Academy Award nominee for Dance Direction LeRoy Prinz and earned songwriter Lloyd Norlin his only Academy Award nomination for his song “Out of the Silence”; Edward Ward’s Score was also Oscar nominated. Like many of these sub-hour Hal Roach Studios productions its original story (by Prinz and Hal Roach Jr. adapted by Kenneth Higgins; [...]
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Vacation from Marriage (1945)

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Vacation from Marriage (1945) Also known as Perfect Strangers (1945) Produced & directed by Alexander Korda and written by Clemence Dane this above average romance drama features Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr in the leading roles and Glynis Johns Ann Todd & Roland Culver in the only other credited parts. Donat who made only 20 films in his career had already earned his Best Actor Oscar (on his second and last nomination) for Goodbye Mr. [...]
APACHE TRAIL (1942)

Apache Trail (1942)

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Apache Trail (1942) Directed by Richard Thorpe this Western features Lloyd Nolan as the man in black William Lundigan as his incorruptible brother Donna Reed Anne Ayars Connie Gilchrist and Chill Wills as supporting players in the cast of this Ernest Haycox (story) & Maurice Geraghty treatment. The film begins with hanging Judge Keeley (George Watts) literally riding through town on the stagecoach to pass sentence on whomever the Marshal [...]
SMALL TOWN GIRL (1936) – FULL REVIEW!

Small Town Girl (1936) – full review!

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Small Town Girl (1936) – full review! Directed by William Wellman and featuring Janet Gaynor in the title role a year before the two would collaborate on the first screen version of A Star is Born (1937) this slightly above average comedy romance drama also stars Robert Taylor. Ben Ames Williams’s novel was scripted by John Lee Mahin and Edith Fitzgerald. The cast also includes Andy Devine as Gaynor’s insufferable brother-in-law [...]
KILLING THE (1956)

Killing The (1956)

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Killing The (1956) This excellent early film by director Stanley Kubrick is a thrilling crime drama. Kubrick also wrote the screenplay adapting a Lionel White novel (with additional dialogue from Jim Thompson). A team of specialists led by Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay plots a daring racetrack robbery. Coleen Gray plays Clay’s girlfriend Fay Marie Windsor as one of the gang member’s (another nervous character by Elisha Cook Jr.) [...]
MARCH 2007 – GENE KELLY

March 2007 – Gene Kelly

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March 2007 – Gene Kelly Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) – a TCM premiere! The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – a TCM premiere and an all new review! Crimson Tide (1995) – a TCM premiere! The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming (1966) – an all new capsule review! Crainquebille (1973) – a TCM premiere! The Southerner (1945) – an all new review! The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) – a TCM premiere! [...]
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